Global Data Centres

Premium Colocation Space

As Global Switch Sydney's anchor tenant for over 15 years and a Premier Partner of the award-winning NEXTDC M1 Melbourne data centre, we also offer an industry leading set of managed services that could make this your last ever infrastructure relocation.

Convenient Location

Located just outside the CBD, Global Switch Sydney and NEXTDC M1 Melbourne are easily accessible by a range of transport options

Power Density

Built for power-hungry IT environments, our data centres can power and cool equipment in measures of up to 12kW in a single rack without operational risk. Higher density workloads can be accommodated on request.

Energy Efficiency

Our data centres are 20-40% more efficient than office-based facilities thanks to our efficient internal distribution systems and connection to the national grid via high voltage cables.

Security

Connectivity

With embedded private network and public Internet PoPs, you can seamlessly connect to our award-winning global network infrastructure. Expect to save 20-40% on the cost of a circuit delivered to our data centre vs. an office-based facility.

Cloud Services

Cross connect into AWS and Azure - available in both Melbourne and Sydney.

Network Operations Centre

We are the only provider to have a Network Operations Centre (NOC) in both Global Switch Sydney and NEXTDC M1, meaning our highly experienced professionals will be at your beck and call - giving you immediate support when you need it.

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State-of-the-art data centre facilities at your doorstep

Supporting you every step of the way with managed services and commercial flexibility

NTT ICT’s Data Centre Services provide you a quality long-term solution to increase your business’s efficiency and reduce your risks, no matter where you are in the world.

Managing your own data centre, especially in a global organisation, is a difficult task. Faced not only with limited capital and operating budget, you'll also need a team to be available 24x365, that has the right skills to manage complex facilities and security. Transitioning your in-house environment to an NTT ICT data centre takes away the hassle and cost of managing your own data centre team.

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AWS Cloud Performs Better with AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your data centre, office, or colocation environment.

AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection between your network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations. Using industry standard 802.1q VLANs, this dedicated connection can be partitioned into multiple virtual interfaces and maintain network separation between the public and private environments.

For example, it allows you to use the same connection to access public resources such as objects stored in Amazon S3 using public IP address space, and private resources such as Amazon EC2 instances running within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using private IP space. Virtual interfaces can be reconfigured at any time to meet your changing needs.

Cloud’s earliest adopters were told - and sold - the benefits of shifting most of their workloads into a single cloud platform.
But it is fair to say many enterprises now would be wary or uncomfortable with that degree of lock-in, not least because of the difficulties involved in moving everything in.

If it seems like everybody is moving to the cloud, that’s probably because they are: spending on public-cloud services will grow by 18 percent this year alone, according to Gartner.
Finding the right combination of models depends on the unique characteristics of the business, as well as on your short-term and long-term growth goals.

Cages physically separate a company’s servers from others in the data centre, and allow companies to add other equipment, such as a desk to support onsite workers. Yet cages aren’t for everybody: despite their strength, data cages take up large amounts of precious data centre real estate.

You already know colocation is a great way to save yourself the headaches of providing top-tier communications, cooling, power conditioning and the other things that a modern data centre needs. But what do you do when you need to reroute a network cable, physically restart a server or hot-swap a failed hard drive?

When you’re talking about relocating the core of your business, however, you need more to go on than just a hunch. Thankfully, it’s not hard to build a solid business case by considering a range of costs that colocation affects.

Sometimes it seems to take an incident – and therefore a need to try and restore from backup – for businesses to take backup seriously. You can bet those caught out trying to recover from ransomware this time won’t be caught out twice. Here are the six things I’ve learned about being comfortable with your backup quality.

When people take colo space in one of our data centres, they may want us to run most of their IT equipment, or just a subset. For example, they might shift their entire Office 365 or a single Oracle database to run offsite from our environment.
But no matter where the workload is, the data in it needs to be protected in a verifiable and legally-compliant manner.

Moving to a new data centre isn’t a decision to be taken lightly: it involves masses of equipment and a significant change-management exercise that invariably throws up surprises. Gartner has noted that 70 percent of data-centre migrations experience significant time delays or unplanned downtime usually because companies haven’t planned the migration correctly.

It’s no secret that we have a glut of data centre providers in the market. As demand for cost-effective cloud hosting grew, so did the number of operators looking to cash in, which quickly led to over investment in capacity and plummeting prices. But with colocation costs at the lowest they’ve been in years, most data centre providers are now putting plans to expand capacity on the backburner.

When discussing the topic of choosing a colocation provider, it has been my experience that there are often many unrealistic expectations and requirements being voiced as part of these discussions. It appears quite often that the customer is not really aware of what they need or should expect when choosing a colocation provider.

Cloudtel is a trusted IT and telecommunications service provider offering business number trunking and customised communications solutions. In order to provide their customers the flexibility to connect to any telco they wanted and provide responsive customer service, Cloudtel’s co-founder, Matthew Price, chose NTT ICT as their data centre service provider. Read on to find out how we’ve helped.